11-12 December 2019
Naples, Italy
Programme
11 December 2019
8:45 - 9:00 Registration
9:00 - 9:15 Opening Ceremony
9:15 Session 1 - Omics technologies for drug discovery
9:15 - 10:00 Keynote
Computational -omics approaches to natural product discovery
Prof. Marnix Medema, Wageningen University
10:00 - 10:30 Invited
The biodiscovery effort at IMBM
Dr. Leonardo van Zyl, The University of the Western Cape
10:30 - 11:00 Invited
Use of ion mobility in mass spectrometry-based metabolomics of marine natural products
Prof. Espen Hansen, The Arctic University of Norway (UiT)
11:00 - 11:20 Coffee break
11:20 - 11:50 Invited
Genome editing in diatoms
Dr. Mariella Ferrante, Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn
11:50 - 12:10 Mining metagenomes of Geodia barretti from different depths for biosynthetic gene clusters
Ms. Asimenia Gavriilidou, Wageningen University & Reasearch
12:10 - 12:30 Mining for bioactive products in diatom transcriptomes
Dr. Valeria Di Dato, Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn
12:40 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 14:30 Invited
New developments in natural products from marine benthic invertebrates
Prof. Conxita Avila, University of Barcelona
14:30 - 14:50 Bioprospecting Marine Actinomycetes for Novel Anti- Tubercular Drugs
Ms. Daniela Tizabi, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science
14:50 Session 2 - Improving marine secondary metabolite production
14:50 - 15:35 Keynote
Waking-up silent genes for natural product discovery
Dr. Christophe Corre, University of Warwick
15:35 - 15:55 Nutrient starvation to enhance bioactivity in microalgae
Dr. Chiara Lauritano, Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn
15:55 - 16:10 Coffee break
16:10 - 16:30 Fungal cultivability and activation of silent gene clusters
Dr. Teppo Rama, UiT-The Arctic University of Norway
16:30 – 17:15 Keynote
Exploring the Microbial Enzymatic Toolbox for Natural Product (Bio-)Synthesis
Prof. Tobias A. M. Gulder, Technische Universität München
17:15 - 18:45 Poster Session – Neapolitan-style Aperitif
20:00 Social Dinner
Pizzeria Salvo – Via Riviera di Chiaia, 271
12 December 2019
9:15 Session 3 - An Ocean of big data: which future?
9:15 - 10:00 Keynote
The evolution of genome mining for secondary/specialized metabolite biosynthetic gene clusters
Prof. Tilmann Weber, DTU - The Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Biosustainability
10:00 – 10:20
Dr. Marco Borra, Stazione Zoologica
- The contribute of EMBRC to the Blue Growth
10:20 – 12:45:
Prof. Tilmann Weber, DTU
- Advantages of - omic approaches for natural products discovery
Prof. Marnix Medema
- How to take advantage of the "Big Data" generated by –omics technologies.
Dr. Maria Immacolata Ferrante, Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn
- The contribute of genome editing techniques
Prof. Ferdinando Boero, University of Naples Federico II
- Sustainability and – omics approaches
Dr. Leonard van Zyl, The University of the Western Cape.
- The Blue growth in South Africa
Dr. Adrianna Ianora, Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn
- New opportunities for sustainable blue growth
12:45 - 13:00 Concluding Remarks